Behold the Great Sphinx of Olathe!

So what do you do when you are snowed in in Olathe, and have to shovel out your own driveway? Well... you build a GREAT SPHINX of course! Unlike the last ice storm that came by last week, snow is defintely easier to shovel... ;) We had decided that driving the SUV to avoid shovelling the driveway is getting waaaay to expensive gas-wise, so it was time to break out the snow-shovel and push some snow+ice around! 1 hour later, the Beetle side of the driveway was clear, and I even had time to build myself a nice snow sclupture!!!

However, unlike the real Great Sphinx, I didn't have 10,000 slaves at my disposal ; just yours truly! What do you guys think!??!

Happy New Year 2007

Happy new year all! Its been a really hectic week after the New Year at work, so we're squeezing some time over the weekend to post our pictures! Spent this year's NYE celebration at 12Baltimore @ Downtown.... Steve+Munsum, Kyle+Elaine joined us for the festivities as well! For the whole week prior, we were all scouring the Internet for an affordable place to spend the evening. With most places charging $75 per person, $50 per couple was a STEAL!!!! We're are not cheap, just thrifty... ;) Here's YS and Munsum celebrating the savings !!!

The price did come with a "price" though, as we had to show up at the place @ 7.30PM since the buffet ended at 9.00pm! Food wasn't that great, just the regular run of the mill appetizer stuff, which they took away promptly @ 9pm! Man, I guess they were serious about last call for food at 8.45... However, the company of the remaining 2 Malaysians + 2 half Malaysians made the night great! Check out the amazing straw + cake + cold cheese dip sculpture that we made over on the picture on the right!!!! I suspect alchohol might have been a factor there...

Midnight came in almost a jiffy, with the place passing out Champagne and party favors just 15 minutes before the final minutes. The live jazz band did a pretty good job of entertaining us at the same time, compared to a previous NYE where we went to another local bar that had a 5 foot elvis impersonator singing!!! With Auld Lang Synde (I think that's how it's spelled...) in the back ground, and champagne toasts and with all of us blowing those paper horns, 2007 came...
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL !!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year All! This time of year always evokes bittersweet feelings for both of us... The bad memories from my original diagnosis on 23rd of December a few years back always kinda sneaks up on us. The barrage of Christmas music we've been hearing on the radio always reminds me of a dark time on our life where our sadness just seemed so out of snyc with the world's happiness.... Here is a touching song, pulled from Lance Armstrong's Livestrong foundation, if anyone wants to download. Ok!! Enough dark thoughts.

Its a draggy Tuesday morning after a long 3 day Christmas weekend! Didn't do much but catch up on our TV shows - all our Law and Orders, The Closer, Justice and All the CSI's!! Nothing more relaxing than curling up on our ratty blue couch, underneath a warm blanket, sipping hot chocalate while watching killers get caught on TV. ;) By the way, we even managed to squeeze in a movie at the theathers on Friday evening, where we saw singing and tap-dancing penguins (Happy Feet). Gotta tell you all, I was sceptical at first on how much fun a movie about penguins can be... Luckily, the movie proved me wrong!!! So, for the rest of the day, I'll try to get some work done... we'll see what happens! Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!!

Happy Birthday, YeeSin

The news of the impending weather apocalypse (aka the first snow storm of the year), has come and gone already, to the tune of only a measly 8-12 inches of snow. Coincidentally, this momentus event happened in conjuction with Yeesin's Birthday! To celebrate, we plowed our way to the Country Club Plaza with reservations at The Melting Pot at 8pm. With 2 hours to burn before then we grabbed a cup of java at the local Starbucks and strolled to the Apple store were we took this cool picture! Its surprising what some caffeine will do to you!

Here's another shot of us with a "comic book" special effect. I'm pretty sure that she liked her birthday present a very cool Altec Lansing IM7 In-room Ipod player, so that we can listen to our tunes in the Living Room...So, I'm not sure why I'm getting choked in this picture??!!. :P







The guys over at The Melting Pot were nice enough to sign a birthday card, leaving it on our table before we even showed up! How cool is that! After a really filling round of entree Fondue, a complimentary candle was lit on our dessert Fondue... Just don't ask us how sweet that stuff was!

Part 2 of the Birthday was celebrated with Elaine, Munsum, and Steve at JP Wine Bar downtown. We really love that place with its cozy atmosphere, and its wine-flights! (thats where u can order "a set" of a couple of smaller poured wines). Check out the pictures below to see how many of those glasses we managed to squeeze into our tiny bar table! Next, the dessert of the night was from the newly opened Artisan Bakery in OP with a really tasty Almond/Pear Tart to complement the wine flights! After a couple of hours of chatting, the night ended pretty late for us by our standards! Finally got our healthy serving of grease at the local IHOP at 2am, and got home by about 3! Staggered out of bed this morning at 11am... What a night!

Happy Thanksgiving

Breaking away slightly from our yearly tradition, we've decided to mix it up this Thanksgiving! Instead of having us (Well, mainly Yeesin) slaving over the stove for the better part of Thanksgiving, we decided to let the hardworking people over at Figlio's on the Plaza to do it! Plus, Elaine was in Dallas, Nick was in St Louis, and H2 was still stuck in Fedex land... So, not alot of people to cook for anyways! Still, the luxury of spending a nice Thanksgiving buffet on the Plaza does come with a price! Well, the actual bill wasn't too big, only $18.95. The only thing is that we had to have our Dinner @ 2.45pm in the afternoon, so it was a REALLY early dinner! We had to say, we were impressed with the spread out there, with lots of pasta, turkey, and all kinds of wonderful desserts!
Next, to walk off all that food, we strolled right down 1 block to where the lighting of the Plaza lights was scheduled to happen an hour later... Thing is, everyone else seemed to have the same idea as us! It was more people than we've ever seen at this ceremony.... Maybe it was the fact that we were going to be on the NFL Network later that night as the pre-game show to the Chiefs/Denver Thanksgiving Night Game! So, after about an hour of being jostled around in the crowd and listening to some nice renditions of some famous Christmas classics, we were rewarded with the Lights, and a nice firework show as well...

Finally, for more entertainment, we strolled on over to George Brett's (A local Sport's Bar) to catch the game. So, it was just the 2 of us, and a whole bar full of slightly inebriated Chiefs fans to cheer them on. Elaine and Klye were cheering remotely all the way from Dallas too, via the TV and SMS! A couple of rounds of Beers and Wine later, Chiefs won 19 - 10... All in all, a good night! How was everyone else's Thanksgiving night?